Reviews
AFRIFF 2025: ‘The Boy Who Gave’ Review
AFRIFF: A first feature often defines the trajectory of a director’s career. It shapes how audiences will come to perceive their work and what threads they’ll follow through subsequent projects. For The Boy Who Gave, […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘The Good Gift’ Review
AFRIFF: Today’s sermon, or rather review, will be taken from the book of Matthew, chapter 7, verse 11, which says, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘Lace Relations’ Review (Documentary)
AFRIFF: There are familiar patterns in history, events that repeat themselves with little to no variations, circumstances that mothers and daughters will experience and moments that nations will often not learn from. With Lace Relations, […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘Son of the Soil’ Review
AFRIFF: There is no scarcity of bodies in Son of the Soil. Bleeding and strewn across the streets; glistening with sweat, tears and blood; running and ramming into each other; it’s a visceral violence that […]
‘The Greatest Actor of All Time’ Stage Review: Temi Fosudo’s Three-Person Play on The Price of Artistic Purity
When artists cannot change the world, they bicker. Functioning otherwise as actor, writer and co-producer on the project, Temilolu Fosudo brings an energy easy to root for in his directing of this three-man hassle that […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘Pasa Faho’ Review
AFRIFF: From the beginning of Pasa Faho, Igbo is front and centre in suburban Melbourne in Australia. The soundtrack plays Peter King’s “Jo Jolo” as the white people go about their business on the street. […]
AFRIFF 2025: ‘3 Cold Dishes’ Review
AFRIFF: Revenge is a dish best served cold and the Burna Boy-produced 3 Cold Dishes serves you three incomplete meals that leave you wanting more. Directed by Oluseyi Asurf (Hakkunde), the film tells the story […]
‘Osamede’ Review: Ivie Okujaye’s Magic is Dimmed in Dulled-Down Epic
If you squint hard enough, you can almost glimpse the film that Osamede is trying to be: a sweeping historical epic with gods and magic, but also a character drama that probes the motivations and […]
News
EbonyLife ON Plus Launches with ‘Ajosepo’, ‘Dust to Dreams’, Podcast Offerings and More
EbonyLife Group’s highly anticipated digital platform, EbonyLife ON+, has officially re-launched, marking the next era of digital entertainment and lifestyle brand for Mo Abudu since the international streaming investment slowdown in the region. With the […]
CJ Obasi’s ‘La Pyramide’ Moves to Red Souk Work-in-Progress Market Section, Still in Production
In a bid for further global recognition, audience reach, and funding, the Nigerian film industry has, for years, stretched its branches to different parts of the world, and this is not any different in 2025. […]
Port Harcourt’s Visions Film Society Bridges Global South Cinema with Nigerian Audiences
Film screenings and discussions are already commonplace in Lagos. The city is a Nigerian cinephile’s dream place to live. We documented the work of a couple of initiatives in our 2023 The Tentmakers series. At […]
‘Osamede’ Wins Best Narrative Feature at Silicon Valley Film Festival
Osamede has won Best Narrative Feature at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival, taking top honours for a fantasy film that draws its power from the documented history of the Benin Kingdom. The win recognises […]
Pan-African Collaborations Take a New Turn in E-Sports Drama Series ‘Respawn’
2025 Pan African collaborations take a new and rare turn in Respawn, an e-sports drama series set across Nigeria and South Africa, set to be produced by Sonepa (Nigerian prod company), Nile Entertainment and GameEvo […]
The Unsung Architects of Cinema: The Executive Producers Behind ‘The Herd’
When audiences walked into cinemas to see The Herd by Daniel Etim Effiong, they saw powerful performances, breathtaking visuals, and a story that stirred deep emotions. What they didn’t see, and rarely ever do, were […]
AFRIFF 2025: 22 Films You Need to Watch
AFRIFF: This year’s festival has almost 100 selections in 13 categories, which will showcase a diverse lineup of features, shorts, student shorts, and documentaries spanning across Africa and the diaspora. These films, including Nigerian premieres […]
AFRIFF 2025: Official Selections, Panels & Jury Lineup
The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) will kick off its 14th edition on November 2nd, running until November 8th in Lagos, Nigeria. The theme of this year’s festival is Rhythms of the Continent: The Afrobeats […]
Essays
EbonyLife ON Plus Launches with ‘Ajosepo’, ‘Dust to Dreams’, Podcast Offerings and More
EbonyLife Group’s highly anticipated digital platform, EbonyLife ON+, has officially re-launched, marking the next era of digital entertainment and lifestyle brand for Mo Abudu since the international streaming investment slowdown in the region. With the […]
‘Ms Kanyin’ Review: Bloody Spiral of Teenage Recklessness Fails to Meld the Horror of the Madam Koi Koi Lore
The lore of Madam Koi Koi is an ever mutating one. First gaining root in minds during secondary school, the story evolves in detail with every telling. Sometimes she is a woman murdered by students, […]
Zikoko Brings Its Widely-Read Serials to Life in New Anthology Series Produced by Bluhouse Studios
Popular Zikoko serials Naira Life, Love Life, and Sex Life are taking an on-screen adapted form in an anthology film series, Zikoko Life, created by Anita E. Eboigbe and produced by Blessing Uzzi. Big Cabal […]
New in Nigeria: Movies and TV Shows to Watch this July 2025
All confirmed to be available in Nigeria in July 2025, you will find the titles in four categories, further listed in order of their release dates: – Nollywood Movies (and select African countries) – Nollywood […]
With ‘Ms. Kanyin’, Nemsia is Collecting Diverse Nigerian Movie Genres Like Infinity Stones
There’s no gravity for the minds of the people at Nemsia Studios as the release of Ms. Kanyin continues their current run of producing films across a range of genres. Their latest offering, Ms. Kanyin, […]
‘The Lost Days’, The 9th Film From The First Features Slate Explores The Themes Of Family And Forgiveness
Nollywood gets a new family drama this July with The Lost Days, premiering exclusively on Prime Video on July 11, 2025. The film marks the ninth release under the First Features Project, continuing the initiative’s […]
